nate wrote:

What is vyatta system? From a search the closest I can find is some sort of software that provides routing functionality

http://www.vyatta.com/index.php

Is that it ?

Correct. Vyatta is an open source full-featured router/firewall/vpn solution based on Debian. It can be installed on a physical computer or virtualized. Especially in a virtualized environment, Vyatta allows one to easily segregate network segments. Resource requirements can be very low depending on the level of traffic and features enabled.

I currently use it as my primary home router for my static PPPoE AT&T DSL. I also use it to provide inter-VLAN routing.

At my previous employment, I used it for inter-VLAN routing - segments for VoIP, LAN, and DMZ. It worked very well and never had a hiccup.

Best of all, there is no fee for the community edition, with a new version about every 6 months. There's a subscription service if you want technical support and timely updates.

BTW, I don't work for Vyatta, just a happy user of their product.

Here are the technical specs from their website:

HARDWARE SUPPORT » 32-bit x86 processors » PC architecture

INTERFACES » 10/100/1000 Ethernet cards » 10 GbE cards » T1/E1 cards – 1 port » T1/E1 cards – 2 port » T1/E1 cards – 4 port » T3 cards

IP AND ROUTING PROTOCOLS » IPv4 » OSPFv2 » BGPv4 » RIPv2 » Static routes

IP ADDRESS MANAGEMENT » Static » DHCP server » DHCP client » DHCP relay

ENCAPSULATIONS » Ethernet » 802.1Q VLANs » PPP » PPPoE » MLPPP » Frame Relay » HDLC » GRE, IP-in-IP

LOAD BALANCING » WAN link load balancing » MLPPP » ECMP

QoS » Priority Queuing » Classful Queuing » Bandwidth Management

SECURITY » Stateful inspection fi rewall » Network address translation » IPSec VPN » Remote VPN (PPTP, L2TP, IPSec) » DES, 3DES, AES Encryption » MD5 and SHA-1 Authentication » RSA, Diffi e Helman Key Management » NAT Traversal » RADIUS authentication » Individual user accounts and passwords

HIGH AVAILABILITY » VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) » IPSec VPN Clustering » Protocol fault isolation

ADMINISTRATION » Integrated CLI » Web GUI* » Single confi guration fi le » Telnet » SSHv2 » Network upgrades

DEBUGGING AND PACKET SNIFFING » tcpdump » Wireshark packet capture

LOGGING AND MONITORING » Syslog » SNMPv2c

* Web GUI Available Q3 ‘08

Wilson

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